The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

7.2	Listal rating
6.8	IMDB rating

Directed by

Frank Tashlin

Starring (View all)

Tom Miller

Jerri Jordan

Marty 'Fats' Murdock

Herself

Himself

Barry the Paperboy

Mousie

Wheeler

Written by (View all)

Frank Tashlin

(screenplay) and

Herbert Baker

(screenplay)

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The Girl Can't Help It

2 months, 2 weeks ago at Mar 5 14:02

JxSxPx

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Sprinkled with a glossy coat of 1950s rock and roll pioneers appearing for quick cameos, The Girl Can’t Help It takes square aim at the payola scandal, America’s breast obsession and a satirical variation of Born Yesterday. And with Frank Tashlin running the show, you know that the whole thing is going to be a slightly bonkers cartoon, like a “Merrie Melodies” turned flesh-and-blood.
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Gangster hires down-and-out press agent to make his blonde bimbo girlfriend a singing star.

Release date : 1 December 1956

1950s (5), Comedy (4), Musical (3), Music (3), 1956 (3), Rock 'n' Roll (2), Romance (2), Gangster (2), Jayne Mansfield (1), Usa (1), Blonde Bombshell (1), Gangsters (1)

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The Girl Can't Help It

“Sprinkled with a glossy coat of 1950s rock and roll pioneers appearing for quick cameos, The Girl Can’t Help It takes square aim at the payola scandal, America’s breast obsession and a satirical variation of Born Yesterday. And with Frank Tashlin running the show, you know that the whole thing is going to be a slightly bonkers cartoon, like a “Merrie Melodies” turned flesh-and-blood.

Tom Ewell, taking his character from Seven-Year-Itch to its logical and insane conclusion, plays a drunken ad man on the way down the corporate ladder who gets roped into a mobster’s scheme to turn his pneumatic but seemingly talentless girlfriend into a star. It doesn’t take much to see where the satire comes in, and the basic plot follows Born Yesterday fairly closely.

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"16.12.12. TV Pettymykseksi jäävä kohelluskomedia pitää sisällään mainioita rock-numeroita, mutta liiaksi venytetyltä juoneltaan ei kiinnosta sitten niin yhtään. Infantiilissa ja sovinitisessa fantasiassa jättitissinen eukko haluaa vain laittaa miehelle ruokaa kodinhengettärenä ja putkauttaa pentuja, mutta koska sattuu olemaan gangsterinheila, joutuu lähtemään musiikkiuralle. Avustamaan laitettu b-luokan starojen manageri ihastuu eukkoon ja huonoa huumoria revitään milloin mi"